[olug] Virtualization Question

[Adam Lassek]

You can boot a native install of XP from vmware, I've done it. It requires
two hardware profiles, one for virtual and one for native.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Friday 25 April 2008, Dan Linder wrote:
> > If your asking about giving the VirtualBox system direct access to your
> XP
> > partition to re-install WinXP onto that partition without rebooting
> Linux,
> > well...  I've done that with VMWare workstation years ago and it worked
> - I
> > would assume that VirtualBox would allow for direct hardware access for
> > WinXP.
>
> You've done that with VMWare years ago *booting XP*? Generally, this will
> not
> work because Windows (at least XP and newer) can only handle *minor*
> hardware
> changes, or at least forward-moving ones. Generally, the virtualizers
> emulate
> hardware older/less featured than the real system, so it can be
> problematic.
>
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